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Gary Francione
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Tilda Storey Law

The Meat Paradox

Gary Francione Interviewed by Tilda Storey Law

Saturday, 1 April 2023

2:00pm

1 hour

Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre

£7 - £12.50

Leading academic authority on animal rights and animal rights campaigner Professor Gary Francione looks at the latest thinking about eating meat and our attitudes towards it.

Should we eat animals? Until recently, this question was largely an academic one across much of the West. Of course, it’s morally acceptable to eat meat. But the public are now beginning to question the morality of meat-eating, and this is increasingly reflected in restaurant menus and on supermarket shelves. Might we look back in 100 years at our current attitudes to killing and eating other species in the same way we now look back at slavery – baffled at how blind we were to our own immorality? And, given so many of us do recognise the immorality of eating factory-farmed meat products, why do we continue to do it?

Francione is a world- leading authority on animal rights and a leading animal rights campaigner. He was the first academic to teach animal rights theory in an American law school. Francione’s books on animal ethics include Why Veganism Matters and Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? He is professor of law and Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University and visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Lincoln in the UK. Here he talks to Tilda Storey Law, a graduate student at Goldsmith’s College. She recently graduated from The University of Nottingham where she wrote her dissertation on the meat paradox.

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FT Weekend Title partner University of Oxford Netflix European Union Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme BBC World Service International radio partner Owen Mumford Supporter of programme of science and medicine and annual science and innovation award Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Spanish Embassy Event generously supported by the Spanish Embassy Cervantes Institute, London Republic of Panama Event generously supported by Republic of Panama Italian Embassy Supporter of Italian programme The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner International Literary Properties Supporters of the festival green room Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels Sponsor of the festival crime fiction programme The Feathers Hotel Woodstock festival hotel John Roberts Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture Emily Rose and James Marrow Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Miles Young Masumi and Jonathan Dobson George Warren Pank Koria CEO of Project People Lucian Hudson Carole and John Allen David Isaac Jill Dunsmore Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Anna Hunter Marlene Hauser Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival New College Worcester College Worcester College Lincoln College Lincoln College St Cross College St Cross College Trinity College Trinity College Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner TORVA Books which change you, your mind, your world Transworld Doubleday Doubleday Bantam Jewish Book Week Partner of Jewish programme Foodbuy Thje Menu Partners Institute of Hospitality Project People Royal Academy of Arts British Academy Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily The Oxford Times Regional media partner BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Conference Oxford Felicity Bryan Associates CAV Oxford Critchleys Accountants to the festival The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford Brookes University Siren Communications Siren Communications - corporate consultants OX magazine Ox in a Box K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders Chêne Bleu Wines of Provence La Leccia Flip through Flanders Literature Ireland Confucius Institute Pusey House James Currey Society The Wild Geese